Prodigy was released from jail a little over a month ago, March 7th 2011, and he’s on it! Dappling in a few projects here and there., he has already worked on upcoming features for Curren$y and Alchemist EP, Convert Coup, and Jim Jones’ new album, Capo. And tomorrow, he’ll be dropping The Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson EP along with his autobiography My Infamous Life, which contains a lot of classic stories involving Nas, Jay-Z, The Notorious B.I.G., Big Pun, Mary J. Blige, and even Lindsay Lohan. It’s been three years, so I can see his motivation. In an interview with Complex, Prodigy talks about his feelings towards Biggie and his relationship with Jay-Z.

On Biggie

I wasn’t fucking with nobody else but Mobb Deep. I had tunnel-vision, straight up. I ain’t see nothing but Mobb Deep. I ain’t hear nothing but Mobb Deep. And niggas can’t fuck with Mobb Deep. That was my opinion, how I was thinking, and my life. Mobb Deep, fuck everybody else. So when I used to hear certain shit that Biggie used to say, he used to take some of my lines from my lyrics, and use them. That used to piss me off, because I was like, “Damn, this nigga just bit my shit.”

Like what lines?
Like “Niggas bleed just like us,” that’s my shit, and certain other things. But at that time it would piss me off, but now when I look back at it, it’s a compliment. He wasn’t trying to steal. He was basically kind of like a fan. And now I realize because I feel the same way about him. And I feel the same way about certain other rappers too. Just had a different mentality back then. It was little things like that.

On Jay-Z:

[W]e seen that the nigga was not that serious. He says it’s just music, alright cool then it’s just music then. I mean if he would have been some type of threat then we would have took care of that. We bumped into him a few times after that. Like, the VMAs, shows at Madison Square Garden, Nassau Coliseum, certain places like that we’ll see him backstage and he’ll see us like, “Oh, what’s up man?” [Laughs.]

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